Gaveaux, Pierre (1760-1825)

French composer and tenor. He was a pupil of Beck at Bordeaux, where he first appeared as an opera singer, and then moved to Paris, where he was well known as a singer from c. 1790.

Works operas Les Deux Suisses (1792), La Famille indigente, Le Petit Matelot (1796), Léonore, ou L'Amour conjugal (1798, based on the same libretto of Bouilly's used by Beethoven for Fidelio), Un Quart-d'heure de silence, Le Bouffe et le tailleur, Monsieur Deschalumeaux (1806), L'Enfant prodigue; revolutionary hymn Le Réveil du peuple; Italian canzonets and French romances for voice and piano.